Jenny Okun

The works of Los Angeles-based artist Jenny Okun bring together two positions of modern aesthetics: cubism and architectural photography. She builds her compositions from multiple shots of specific buildings, creating a continuum of piercing abstract geometric forms and surfaces. Okun methodically photographs the building by winding the film through the camera in small increments, thus producing one long negative of overlapping images. Often these works are orchestrated into triptychs of complex interconnecting themes and variations. As with her illustrious role models Picasso, Braque, Gris and Leger, the image content is divided up into diverse cubist perspectives and is then transformed into pure abstraction through the medium’s transparency and powerful aesthetic. 

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